Due to a decrease in participation over the last several 3-gun matches, and a potential change in the schedule of our match director, the decision has been made to scale back the 3-gun matches at Sandhill Shooting Sports. With the decline in interest in 3-gun, due to the disenfranchisement with 3GN & many of our regular 3-gun competitors moving, being deployed, or switching their interests to long-range shooting, shutting the range down to the public for the whole day for the competition is no longer fiscally prudent.
We are not planning on shutting down the matches completely. Currently, the plan is to scale back to just a few matches per year, instead of every month (or almost every month). Also, the matches we do hold will be limited to no more than 3 squads of 12 to allow everyone to get cycled through the rifle & pistol bay stages first, so those stages can be broken down for those bays to be open to the public.
There will not be a 3-gun match in May due to Memorial Day weekend.
Sandhill Shooting Sports has been a great supporter of 3 gun. They’ve run matches that have lost money on match days where attendance and the match fee didn’t come anywhere near what they could have earned by opening to regular customers. It’s not fair to expect them then shoulder the fiscal burden. After all, they are a business. Businesses have to make money or they go away. I want this 2a friendly business to prosper. We can adjust the way we conduct 3gun matches to assist this business, and still have great matches at the same time.
Not sure this will go public or not. I’ll cross post on FB. //Justin